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Every year, approximately 40% of global food crops valued at over $200 billion USD are lost to plant disease. Staples like wheat, rice, potato, soybean are constantly fighting against pathogens,...

Animal models are the cornerstone of basic research, providing simple, easy-to-study and ethical biological systems that help us better understand how the human body works. Immunologists tend to rely heavily...

Cancer is often described as a uniquely human tragedy. But it isn’t. Cancer affects nearly every class of vertebrate and is especially common in mammals. It is, in many ways,...

Drug discovery is a game of long odds: only one in ten thousand lab discoveries survives the gauntlet from benchtop to prescription pad. Stranger still is the fate of a...

Monday morning begins: you open Outlook, fix a sentence in Word, skim a new paper, and accidentally drift onto social media where yet another “personal assistant” pops up. The recent...

1. VC vs. PE: What’s the Difference? Every biotech company begins its journey with an idea, long before it earns a single dollar. To survive those early years, it needs...

According to Pablo Picasso, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Art in its very nature does not provide an accurate depiction of reality. In fact, oftentimes, it...

Cryo-electron microscopy, photon counting-computed tomography, quantum imaging – these are a few modern developments that have allowed scientists to capture microscopic details at ultra-resolution. Researchers today have a vast arsenal...

The Hardi Cinader Prize is a well-recognized award for those in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Each year, this award is given to a graduate student...